CURRENT
A journal for living in the agentic age
The agent ecosystem keeps coining terms for things that already had perfectly good names. Not analogues or spiritual predecessors. The same mechanisms, wearing different syllables.
Three of the four concepts below were renamed. One wasn't. "Compensation" survived intact because no better word existed. The other three were reinvented from scratch by practitioners who never encountered the originals. That's how institutional knowledge actually vanishes. Not through rejection. Through vocabulary.
The agent ecosystem keeps coining terms for things that already had perfectly good names. Not analogues or spiritual predecessors. The same mechanisms, wearing different syllables.
Three of the four concepts below were renamed. One wasn't. "Compensation" survived intact because no better word existed. The other three were reinvented from scratch by practitioners who never encountered the originals. That's how institutional knowledge actually vanishes. Not through rejection. Through vocabulary.